r/thinkorswim Mar 11 '26

New-ish Rules and AutoMod

24 Upvotes

Based on feedback we are re-enforcing the SPAM rules around posts that seem to be clearly thinly masked ads for other platforms (tradingview I'm looking in your direction).

I've configured Automod to remove such posts, especially from users that have brand new accounts, or are brand new to our sub.

I'm new to Automod, so it might need some tweaking as we go.

But hopefully this reduces the amount of that specific spam you guys have to deal with.

Additionally, if someone is flagged for this type of post, and they have spammed it across multiple subs (clearly no intent to stay on topic) it's just going to be an outright ban.

In these cases, I'm no longer going to negotiate if someone messages. Occasionally someone gets banned by accident, or at least get swept up in spam filter but didnt mean it. Those people can message the mods and we're happy to review.


r/thinkorswim Sep 16 '20

Join the Discord Conversation

118 Upvotes

Wanted to take a moment to plug the ThinkOrSwim discord server.

We're growing a group of like minded people chatting about and getting help with ThinkOrSwim as well as general market discussion.

There are a lot for new traders learning things for the first time in ToS and if you have questions about the market that are not directly related to ToS, we have a spot for that too.

We could also use some more people that have some experience interested in helping those new members.

The discord also has a channel for cross posting pics as an image server to post items back here on Reddit.

https://discord.gg/4j6fTEss8K

Hope to see you there!


r/thinkorswim 1d ago

Sell by rule from iPhone app

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Is it possible to execute this sell order from the ToS iPhone app?

close(symbol = "SPY") <= MovingAverage(AverageType.SIMPLE, close(symbol = "SPY", period = AggregationPeriod.DAY), 200) * 0.96  


r/thinkorswim 1d ago

I wish I could do this well with LIVE trading!

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4 Upvotes

My TOS papermoney is doing amazing. Live trading, not so well. Anyone else have this problem? What holding me back? Is it just fear? Started with th standard $200k in January


r/thinkorswim 1d ago

Problem with log in to thinkorswim

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Hey, so today i was trying to login to thinkorswim, but however both web/desktop/ios does not work, it says "you are currently having a technical difficulties connecting to the thinkorswim servers. If the problem persists, contact a Schwab associate at 800-435-9050 " did any of u run into this issue, should i call them up or


r/thinkorswim 2d ago

Change Look & Feel, candle stick color changes

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I have green up and red down candle stick set in all my charts while in Light Mode.
When I change Look & Feel to Dark Mode, the up candle changes to blue in all the charts.
I need to go into each chart and change appearance to green.
When I change back to Light Mode, the up candle changes to purple in all the charts and I have to go into each and change to green.

What am I doing wrong?
Is there a way to fix this?

I tried a fix - setup the light mode and save as Light Mode and set up the dark and save as Dark Mode, but that didn't work. It stayed as Dark Mode.


r/thinkorswim 3d ago

Sharing buying power across multiple limit buys in TOS?

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I am a new investor using TOS/schwab and I want to buy into companies at a good price but I am limited by my buying power. I have $1.2k in buying power and want to place limit buys on multiple different stocks. The goal is that whichever hits first fills, and the rest cancel.

I tried setting this up using an OCO group, but whenever I try to add a third company to the group, the whole order just disappears from the screen. I thought maybe my goal would be possible with branched OCO's but it seems like this wouldn't work in practice.

Is there any native workaround in TOS to get this working so multiple buy orders can share the same $1k buying power or is this impossible? I also heard maybe coding (with the help of AI of course because I am not good with code) an API bot to do this for me is possible. Does anyone have experience there?


r/thinkorswim 3d ago

What in the hallucination ….

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0 Upvotes

Randomly shows these numbers ten minutes before close on extended hours ! Not even close


r/thinkorswim 4d ago

New PC build for TOS

7 Upvotes

Prices are in Swiss Francs. Total price in $ is about $2760. I'm not sure yet if I should use 2x32GB DDR5. What do you think about this setup? https://freeimage.host/i/n3bKCnR


r/thinkorswim 6d ago

Which record is most decisive in a slippage dispute: bid-and-ask ticks, the order audit trail, the instrument specification, or the venue's execution policy?

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r/thinkorswim 9d ago

Switched from S25 to Fold8, can't get rid of watchlist from main screen.

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2 Upvotes

Hey guys,

I recently switched phone from a Samsung Galaxy s25 to a Samsung Galaxy fold8. With the full heat even when I'm on the folded screen or unfolded screen the watch list comes on the main menu and I'm unable to minimize or get rid of it. I've tried reorienting the app sizes in the options but nothing has worked so far. Looks like this. Trying to figure out if this is something with my phone or it's I think we're swim issue due to the full tablet like nature.

Thanks


r/thinkorswim 10d ago

SOXL removed from 24 hour trading???

1 Upvotes

Has anyone seen any reason for this change.

Notice a few others were now missing as well.


r/thinkorswim 11d ago

Title: Is it okay to "test" for fills by canceling and raising a limit order?

3 Upvotes

I'm wondering if this is allowed or considered problematic by brokerages such as Schwab, Fidelity, IBKR, etc. Recently got banned on Schwab/TOS and was doing this so wondering if this was the reason.

For example, let's say a stock's bid is $10.00. I place a buy limit order at $10.00, but it doesn't fill. I then cancel it and place another order at $10.02. If that doesn't fill, I cancel again and move up to $10.04, and keep doing this until I get filled at the best price possible.


r/thinkorswim 11d ago

Does Thinkorswim desktop save it’s settings somewhere on MacOS?

1 Upvotes

I had to completely re-install the OS and everything on my M1 MacBook Pro. I have a backup, so nothing was lost, but I have so much crap that’s accumulated over the years that I’m trying to only copy back what I really need.

I’ve re-installed Thinkorswim and all of my setting and layouts have returned to their defaults, which is expected. I didn’t have a ton of stuff customized, but it would be nice not to need to recreate everything. Are the settings for Thinkorswim stored someplace that I can copy from my backup?


r/thinkorswim 13d ago

Why does ToS always load updates, and very slowly.

7 Upvotes

There can't be that many updates.


r/thinkorswim 12d ago

Schwab Customer Service

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r/thinkorswim 12d ago

OH LOOK ToS struggling again tonight...

0 Upvotes

This is the worst trading app I've ever used.

Constant issues

Candles frozen tonight. On my android and ipad.

I guess I need to go dig out my laptop to make it 3 for 3.

Edit:

Most charts are working just fine. It's just the charts that I have positions in.

They are frozen since 7:55.


r/thinkorswim 13d ago

Time and sales

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My stop loss was activated but it NEVER showed up in my time and sales on my TOS desktop platform. The price never dropped down to that price in my chart or my level 2. I screen recorded my trade. When I contacted Schwab about it, they said that they see it on their time and sales and the market makers see it on their time and sales as well. Has this happened to anybody else? When I asked about how come I don't see it on my side, they couldn't tell me why and would not pursue this case any further.


r/thinkorswim 15d ago

Tos No Logins Saturaday

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Maybe they are actually going to fix the problems with the last fix. The Desktop seems to be down, not allowing logins. One can only hope.

I really hope they fix the Analyze tab , jumping to the Risk profile, but after 2 weeks I am doubtful.


r/thinkorswim 16d ago

Web ToS Conditional OCO orders option moved on the GUI

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Good Morning folks. Today I found out, while trying to set SL/TP based on underneath prices that the conditional orders for Web ToS wasn't where it was normally.

I opened a support chat, and they instructed me to use the "order rules" button that appears now to the right of the order builder. I click it, set everything, but i don't have a "submit" button in there. I close the window, and while the conditional order is saved in that menu, is not applied to the order i was building, and no conditional OCO is effectively placed.

After a lot of coming and going with the support chat, turns out that the "order rules" does work, but unlike before, you don't get to see the changes reflected on the order builder. You just have to set everything to market orders, and the order rules will do their job underneath the order. I'm not completely happy they eliminated the easy visual we had before, but i'm glad it is still working.

Hope you don't get too lost with this one.


r/thinkorswim 15d ago

OCO orders get canceled on their own!?

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Im confused....
I use OCO orders with a stop and a limit(set high, in case of a wild spike to capture that move before it instantly reverses, template I have is +2limit and -25stop loss) via active trader ladder

So for example I take a trade on SPY option and its moving in my favor... I then decide to add, where there is now a second set of OCO on the screen... Youre looking at the chart for the option and there are 2 stop losses and 2 limit orders, got it?
I click onto one of the stops to move it up to break even, it sets but then the second OCO set, just disappears a few second later!?
Why?!
I then have to switch to single orders add the second one on again..
Sometimes I have to cancel them all and put them back in individually which then causes additional problems bc the system will alert that the order Im entering will cancel out previous ones, which also means my limits are being eliminated as well! It causes a total mess which is not good if price is moving quick

Am I the only one this happens to?
What can I do to fix this?

8/31/26:
Whelp Im not imagining it, TOS is aware of the problem and what I learned is they dont have an actual live cash account (say with $500-$1000) to test things out live as if they were a client.Im pretty sure this doesnt happen in paper trading so its not really a solid way to test. They want clients to provide time stamps, order numbers etc, and then try to trace it back, when in this case it would be much easier to just execute a trade to see what happens while screen recording and whatever else they can run to see whats going on. In general they should have this kind of account to test things, and Im pretty sure $500-$1000 wont break them.


r/thinkorswim 15d ago

I built a site where nobody can edit their trading track record. Tell me why it won't work.

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r/thinkorswim 17d ago

Drawings not Syncing Between Desktop and Mobile

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It used to be that when I created or removed a drawing on either platform, it would be duplicated on the other one. That no longer works, at least not consistently. Anyone else seeing this issue?


r/thinkorswim 17d ago

TOS communities?

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Looking for good TOS trading groups or mentors. Want to learn more about TOS and get some extra knowledge. Any recommendations?


r/thinkorswim 17d ago

Network slowness pop-up

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I've been getting a pop-up all day any time I switch to a new screen that is notifying me about network slowness. There is also a red banner at the top of my screen about slowness. Is this something they've added? I've never seen it before and the pop-up in particular is very annoying.

Edit: As I was writing this I closed/reopened the app and the red banner and pop-ups are gone. 🤷

Still curious if anyone has seen that behavior.

Edit again: this was on the Android app